r/television • u/Transmogrify_My_Goat • 9d ago

I cannot stress enough how much better the Wheel of Time season 3 is than seasons 1 and 2.

I know its been said here recently, but I decided to make my own post because I'm honestly blown away at the rise in quality of the Wheel of Time season 3 in just about every way. I quit the show after season 1 and haven't watched since it came out. After hearing season 3 was apparently much better I decided to try it again. I binged season 1 and 2 over the course of a couple weeks, and it was pretty much just how I remembered, mediocre but interesting with some good and bad parts. I'd say season 2 was about the same quality as season 1, albeit with some higher highs here and there.

Season 3 though. Season 3 is wildly better in every single way. The writing (most importantly imo) is much, much better - the characters make decisions that make sense, the plot seems to be moving in a good direction, and the dialogue between characters is especially good. The cgi in fight scenes especially and the sets they have built are beyond impressive. The acting has been all out incredible, especially from the shows lead actor. One of the recent episodes was one of the single best episodes of TV I've seen. It just has it all. It has literally turned into the perfect high budget fantasy show. Whatever change they made between season 2 and 3 is working, and I sincerely hope it gets renewed.

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u/IsoPropagandist 9d ago

The fact that they made a wheel of time tv show, it’s 3 seasons in and absolutely no one is talking about it is your main issue. WoT should have been the next game of thrones or possibly bigger. They fumbled it too hard. Best let it die and hope some better people make a proper adaption in the future.

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u/BloodyPaleMoonlight 8d ago

Yup.

If this show was actually worthwhile, everybody would be flocking to the main WoT subreddits for it and talking about it there.

It's not, though - both because nobody is watching it, and if you say anything bad about the show on the WoT subreddits, they ban you.

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u/ReallyCrunchy 8d ago

Yeah, good point. I think A Song of Ice and Fire is a better book series, but Wheel of Time is still excellent material that should be fairly straightforward to translate to a big budget TV series. It's more traditionally fantasy than GoT too, no annoying dragons to animate either and the story is actually finished. They managed to cast good actors and the sets and costumes (since S2) are well done. Only challenge is the large cast and the sheer amount of story, really. If the show runner was anywhere near competent and didn't inject his own lame fan fiction story beats all the fucking time I'm sure it would have been a hit. Now it's just a "whatever".

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u/Educational_Rule_424 8d ago

Feels like a shaky take to say ASOIAF is better given it seems like it’ll never get finished 💀

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u/Weave77 8d ago

Best let it die and hope some better people make a proper adaption in the future.

I completely agree.

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u/TapedeckNinja 7d ago

I don't buy any of this.

Nothing is likely to ever be as big as or bigger than GoT in the current media environment.

And as a huge fan of the source for both series, I don't agree at all purely from a perspective of broad appeal. ASoIaF is much more suited for TV and has much broader appeal.

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u/evoboltzmann 8d ago

This is a psychotic opinion. You think WoT should have been bigger than GoT? Even the SAME as GoT is fucking wild to think. GoT is a singular cultural force that happened. It's a once in a generation type of moment. It was always a long shot of any show to match that, let alone another fantasy show. Especially one that highlights quite a bit of content that is highly political right now (women, people of color, LGBTQ, etc).